7+ Year Member

Someone who did a summer program at upstate said that the admissions staff told them a story of one student who would have been accepted, but then the adcom found out he was an a**hole to the admissions office staff. He wasn't accepted... don't know if he was waitlisted or rejected.

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Someone who did a summer program at upstate said that the admissions staff told them a story of one student who would have been accepted, but then the adcom found out he was an a**hole to the admissions office staff. He wasn't accepted... don't know if he was waitlisted or rejected.

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This is very true. I'm currently a Research Assistant working in the office of a couple of interviewers. They've asked me to keep an eye on the applicants and tell them about any jerks. As a result, I have been personally responsible for the rejection of at least one applicant who would otherwise have been accepted.

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1. If you're caught with more than an ounce, and it was less than 100 yards from the school
2. If your last name is Bin Laden.
3. If your dad is John Edwards.
4. If they find out about that stint you did as a mercenary in the Congo....."War crimes is such a harsh term....."
5. Failing to wear a kilt when you interview with
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6. Uttering the phrase "SHOW ME THE MONEY!" when asked why you want to be a doctor
7. Replying with "Because I couldn't get into a real medical school" when ask why you're applying to osteopathic programs

7+ Year Member

Well, sometimes it is better to be "awfully" honest than to give someone a false hope, which could lead to a serious heartbreak later on.

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Here's evidence as to show you may be wrong about the "awfully honest" thing and the "false hope" thing :

From this year alone-->Application year of 2007
MCAT score greater than 12 and less than 28
Overall GPA greater than 1.00 and less than 3.40
Science GPA greater than 1.00 and less than 3.40
Applied MD and accepted at any medical school

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Application year of 2007
MCAT score greater than 12 and less than 25
Overall GPA greater than 1.00 and less than 2.50
Science GPA greater than 1.00 and less than 2.50
Applied MD and accepted at any medical school

2+ Year Member

Not true at all...my colleague was accepted to U of Iowa Carver wit a 3.27 and a 27 MCAT...and before anyone asks...no he is not a URM..so please lets not post stats that we arent sure of because we all know that cases differ from person to person..BUT it is safe to say that the lower your GPA and MCAT are..the lower your chances of gaining admission may be...

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Not true at all...my colleague was accepted to U of Iowa Carver wit a 3.27 and a 27 MCAT...and before anyone asks...no he is not a URM..so please lets not post stats that we arent sure of because we all know that cases differ from person to person..BUT it is safe to say that the lower your GPA and MCAT are..the lower your chances of gaining admission may be...

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Of course, there is an exception to everything. I was actually being generous with my stat compare to what the UCSD admissions lady told me. She said that applicants should have around 3.7 and 30 to be EVEN considered.

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Sell the coins that you jayed last Thursday
Dine by candlelight and hold your savings tight
You'll never know when the bridge falls apart
He spoke of latent causes, sterile gauze's and
The bedside morale
He trapes around the table talking sentences so incomplete
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Yelling "Does anybody here have brain cancer?!" on the hospital tour while on the oncology ward.

(...actually happened. the same applicant.)

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We had a premed who was shadowing a doc walk into the ICU one time with the doc and very loudly exclaim in reference to one of our vent patients (in front of the family): "Wow.....is that guy going to die?!" The family looked at the kid, looked at the pulmonologist- who I think was ready to crawl in a hole and die himself at that point.......talk about saying the wrong thing.

I'm pretty sure if you did THAT during an interview tour, you wouldn't get in.

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This is very true. I'm currently a Research Assistant working in the office of a couple of interviewers. They've asked me to keep an eye on the applicants and tell them about any jerks. As a result, I have been personally responsible for the rejection of at least one applicant who would otherwise have been accepted.

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Out of curiosity, what constitues this jerky/pompous behavior? Any good stories? Whenever anyone brings it up it always sens me into a paranoia...

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'Nothing you do in the lab will be a waste of time. Any research experience will teach you necessary basic skills which may help you down the road. I know several medical students who were glad they learned to run gels and isolate proteins, stuff normally reserved for undergrad grunt work. NEVER think work is "above you". It only makes you come off as pompous'

--MFPullen

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Tons of things are going to kill an app. But for my money it's going to be a felony or conviction. No med school wants to be associated with the guy who's going be on the front pages in 20 years for a career of heinous acts. There are plenty of physicians with questionable moral profiles out there... why take a risk?

Absolutely not! You got two interviews yourself so obviously it is not a killer.

On this thread we're talking "NO ONE with this on an application gets in anywhere"

and I was serious about the gum, the cleavage and the rudeness.

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Well I'm just passing along advice given to me by an ex-adcom friend of mine who's also a gay M.D.. He said I need to remove any trace from my application that I'm gay (and all I did was mention that I have had a partner for 9+ years and bought a house together 6 years ago) as it was killing my application.

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